Great Egrets

 

I had a good day photographing great white egrets. 

Pepe Mar

 Mexican-born artist Pepe Mar now lives and works in Miami.  Mar's works are now exhibited at the Baker Museum in a room off the lobby of Artis-Naples.  Mars creates large, colorful pieces with figures created from clothes bought at thrift stores and paint.

The room is wonderfully colorful, with the red in Mars' works playing off against the huge Chihuly chandelier, and reflections on the polished marble floor.

 

A Quiet Moment

 Two security guards took advantage of a quiet time in the galleries to have a conversation.

Dawn's Forest

The lobby and a side room of Artis Naples hold a huge, white, three dimensional installation, Dawn's Forest, by Louise Nevelson.

The Face of Immokalee

The Face of Immokalee is a public art project of large black-and-white portraits of Immokalee residents.  It is hosted on a wall of the Baker Museum in Naples and on the walls and trucks of Lipman Farms in Immokalee.

 Immokalee is a farming community east of Naples.  It is the center of the region's agriculture industry and home to many immigrant and migrant families who work the fields that produce a large amount of the United States' fresh produce.

Immokalee is at the base of our food chain and is among the most economically disadvantaged towns in Florida, yet it is ironically located within one of the wealthiest counties in the United States.

The portrait photographer Michelle Tricca envisions The Face of Immokalee as a way to champion this agricultural community.  Photoshoots were conducted between 2019 and 2023 with Immokalee residents, including farmworkers, students, community leaders, athletes and working professionals.

Michelle Tricca is a portrait photographer based in Naples and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She has been awarded funding for her ongoing project The Face of Immokalee from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture.

Wandering - III

 Some more photos from wandering around my community.

A red-shouldered hawk posed atop a dead tree covered by vines.

A friend has planted lots of milkweed.

A female anhinga sits here most days.

This was earlier that day, the sunrise that greeted me above the 16th fairway.

Wandering - II

 Here are some more photos from wandering around my community.

A great egret was hunting, unsuccessfully while I was there.

This alligator likes to sun himself near the women's tees on the 18th hole.

I see great blue herons often.  This one was watching golfers tee off on the 8th hole.

Pileated woodpeckers often announce their arrival with a loud squawk.

To be continued . . . .